Need for Political Development in India
email: khyati.khush @gmail.com India is a land of vast diversity and long history. The world’s oldest civilisation flourished on this land. Hence the people have inherited their intrinsic values from ages ago. However, the present democratic structure of the nation is merely 64years old. When India got independence after a long tussle in 1947, the Indian economy was a gloomy picture backed by massive poverty, unemployment, widespread diseases, illiteracy and underdevelopment. The Supreme law of the land was framed and enforced as the Indian Constitution in 1950. Thereby, India was defined as ‘ socialist secular sovereign democratic republic’. So far in these years after independence, no doubt the Indian growth story is worth applauding and India has walked miles ahead the gloomy state it was at the time of independence. It is the world’s fastest growing economy now, 3 rd in GDP (on PPP basis). [1] However, the inequalities of income & wealth, poverty still remain a deep